[Fist Gamet]

Morgoth, on 02 November 2012 - 08:42 AM, said:

Briar King, on 02 November 2012 - 12:01 AM, said:

TS: Prince of Thornes is fucking awesome as is Bk 2. Also Mark the author post here which is fucking great! Check it out.

Fucking A!

Agreed, and also to Abercrombie...and I have just started The Red Country

[Overactive Imagination]

Nice avatar, Fist Gamet!

Seen Sword of Doom?

[kcf]

I'm curently reading Zoo City by Lauren Buekes. I like it at least OK. It's certainly got a nice originaly, fresh feel to it. I think my overall enjoyment will hinge on how ends though. I need to write up a review for Of Blood and Honey by Stina Leicht - it was excellent. Maybe the best book I've read this year, and I've read a lot of good books this year.



I'm not sure what will be next. Red Country is very tempting, but then everyone is reading/reviewing it these days, so I may wait a while on it. I'm fairly tempted to read City of Dark Magic by Magnus Flyte or maybe Stray Souls by Kate Griffin - I'm hesitant on the later because I haven't yet read all of the Matthew Swift books by Griffin and I don't know if Stray Souls has any big spoilers in it or not - it's supposed to not be a sequel, but it's set in the same 'world' and Matthew Swift at least has a cameo role.

[worry]

It's not a consensus, but I would say that's the majority opinion here. I actually agree, but I still like it plenty and plan to re-read it soon, so it's still all relative.

[End of Disc One]

I don't think there's any consensus in the ranking of ICE's books. I'd say OST>RotCG>SW>NoK but everyone is different.

ICE is undortunate that his fanbase has to be a subset of SE's fanbase. There may be a lot or people out there who would like ICE's books, but since they don't like SE's they will never know.

[MTS]

It's funny, ICE is even more divisive than GGK on these boards.

[Tiste Simeon]

Thanks guys will add it to "download to Kindle" list!

[Solidsnape]

I've just started the complete works of Sherlock Holmes.
I've got some work ahead of me, but I'm sure that I'll put it down after a few books and start something else.

In the last few weeks I read

Last Light - Alex Scarrow, which I thought was VERY interesting and darker than I'd imagined.
Though the sequel doesn't appeal really.

Also The Taking by Dean Koontz.
I loved this book and read it in 2 days.
I'm not really a fan of this type of genre (horror/thriller), and would generally go with Stephen King first in this area.
However, the plot seemed just what I was looking for. It was top bloody notch.

In other news I can feel a GoTM re-read comin on.
My brother in law is reading it now (promised me he would ever since he/we met SE back in June and he felt shit when he was asked which his favourite in the series was!)
Him talkin about it all the time makes me want to read it ALL again.


How about this,
He just read the first reading of the deck we see in the series, drawn by 'Sail.
I asked him if he understood what was going on, he said that there was some card drawn of a "half man, half dragon with a big sword that's trailing chains behind it"

Imagine my face!! I'm sooooooo excited for him to meet my favourite literary character ever!!!!
I need a memory wipe so I can do it all again.

[End of Disc One]

I found The Blade Itself pretty mediocre. His other books I've read have been great though.

[Use Of Weapons]

Re-reading _Kushiel's Avatar_ by Jacqueline Carey. This series may well become my most re-read series ever.

[Serenity]

I've made a start on Heroes Die.

[Tattersail_]

I haven't even finished "Last Argument of Kings" yet but Yes!! Yes!! Yes!! I thought it started off a bit slow compared to how it is ended but that does not take anything away from this book. Resolution after resolution early on made me think "what is coming next" but then fuck me sideways it delivers in such a big way. Epic! I mean the duel midway through was awesome! Crazy hillman Crummock is one crazy character that I liked. The amount of times we get to see the bloody nine thrills me. Now it is all converging nicely into one epic ending and I know, I KNOW, i'll be disappointed when I finish because there won't be more to read. The story is amazing so far and so full of win.

[Abyss]

Serenity, on 05 November 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:

I've made a start on Heroes Die.

Mwa ha haa....


Finisged CRACK'D POT TRAIL. Trippy! Will post in the ded-forum.
In need of some low thinky high action i started Lovegrove's AGE OF ODIN. Slow boil start but i like where i think its going... Thor getting punched in the nads helped.

[QuickTidal]

I'm still re-reading STAR BY STAR by Troy Denning...it's been so many years I'd forgotten just how dark, yet excellent this book is.

I've not reached "the part" yet, but I'm going to wager it's going to emotionally drain me like it did the first time.

[QuickTidal]

Briar King, on 05 November 2012 - 08:58 PM, said:

I fucking cried during that part. That was not cool. Think how badass it would be with him, and Ben plus Jaina at the helm. I still really don't care much about Jacens path, I don't miss him at all.

i also don't miss Jacen one bit.

Oh, but in regards to "emotional"

Spoiler

Bazel Warv's heroic death in APOCALYPSE absolutely did me in like a little sobbing kid. I think that was the first big heroic death since Anakin and the floodgates just opened. Either way, I'm a suck. LOL

This post has been edited by QuickTidal: 05 November 2012 - 09:08 PM

[rhulad]

Finished FoD, and then read The Princess Bride. Not sure what to read next, thinking maybe The Name of the Wind by Patric Rothfuss, or perhaps starting on the Codex Alera series by Jim Butcher.

[rhulad]

Briar King, on 05 November 2012 - 09:32 PM, said:

Go with Alera! It's finished and plus its just badass.

FINE!

[Abyss]

Just remember, it steadily gets better, book by book.

[polishgenius]

Just started Kate Griffin's new book, the Urban-Magic-but-not-Matthew-Swift-though-he-appears-in-it Stray Souls.

So far... well, you know how the Dresden Files raised the bar in book four and then blew it up in Death Masks? Well, the last book, Minority Council, was book four and it raised the game for the series and now this... is FUCKING. AWESOME. I'm not that far in so there's still time to tail off but I'm not expecting that from Griffin and if she doesn't, well, Cold Days is going to have to go some to be the urban fantasy release of the year.

It's like China Mieville and Terry Pratchett had a baby who's godfather was Neil Gaiman.

[rhulad]

If it's anywhere near as good as The Dresdencrack Files, it won't take me long to get through the series. I have all of the books sitting on one of my bookshelves...